The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-06

band running down each side OF the open 'front.'
and sowed on at the back.
Ssst as sad yss 1s h %sls dsssS
sx hours 40 Tsr to-day Ard hsys mad, ,bes ..
work have these canton flannel kind. They
% S sts sSSs ss1 as assr S
have go9ds that hs can work on work until IL
For som ssi sisds Sss e, work
/ get only as cents Thcse hore have the In
as ssp ns cut TG t hsss gas 40
That makes more sewing ,hn to be done but fss
cheap v ones, there Is 80 much more to do. fcan
half. sometimes where work at them ali day
and until nearly midnight can mako dozen
and half PIT that's sant m mot often e v.o. a.
ears is the highest. Last week / made only
$I.26, because they told me the baby was dying.
End an had to go up TO the hospital every day
NJ Before the baby came used II e ~ work in
tnS q Goods Do now only they fn urn
machines and steam power and had to work
only regular hours every day. For the drawers
me 50 cents 2 dozen a. the, iactofy. The Kind
make ior 81 cents hsf Re got % cent? ,bs Tor
snd Was treated Ike living e crsstSrs; but
hs Sn oSn ana a as YGtk o sns
ns0T q 40 : viii Keep soa
RGSd together r ana RE- kSgsh that
on East '1 Street she Was az es
%sEs o,ss soy S5s dow
careful not to lot us know that. Tor fear We
might find out how much the men pay them
much Inc as wtTs and thirty cents dozen
Of re work DO for her An il costs
te as ve cents dozen Tor soms Tor nsh
lng-that's putting on the buttons. making tho
spn and he family Tia No.
can't. II L wasn't for the help that get from
the church and from some good people we'd
Il We're not that the landlords the kindest one
ever knew and takes tho money as can give
It t. and SsSy t. ga ana %E
husband so could leave the house I'd 60 back
to the th9usa It's m s MaS d9En
way It's little use living at all"
TWENTY CENTS A DAY
At SIG East Fourteenth street, on tho second
floor Of the rear tenement. reached through g
cats, and lame, dirty. and deiormed children,
Ha Lyle old rss
I %ens sns drawers yssrs thas Maria sass
ste Ses kf foa then Esst
dow in the room, and sewed steadily making
shs tSeed q shs
thumb OF her right hand there is a curious.
Ivid ring. whore the handle Of the scissors
drawers there were three buttons. three button-
sss ana Sna a. s ha ss1 %
buttonholes Kate CrEwIoy ges ten cent? for p
eli hand work, and good hand work at that. for
Mrs Crows bnttGnho ons w., Would no. have
two dozen in a day, When have WORK keep ki
can make three, dozen, Last night ! finished
dozen in four hours, but couldn't Id,. do that
asn average ai i am doing we'll manys the day
/ get them done take them around to Alice
ne pay for them, end then / ,, 60 around and
semetimos It's two weeks before got the pay:
MY eyes are bad and Hap's work Eo but
soSY or "a eoa ns as as ouF
sixsys get WORK. Ths list four days I've had
ITS not 6 a living that ] get at all. sir: I'd
never call it that. fnsver have meat: never
have eggs: l never have butter; Ply bread
is So q month: or course could never pay that
's snd i've with me- 50 se get along cheaper
living together so. He's had no work for two
months now. though. and it's hard, God knows
through life ike creeping snail"
Halt angrily the old woman dashed hand:
kerchief across her eyes, already strained and
red wit bending over the work. and she cast
swi. slapse ABOUT the two bars desoiats little
iHmbling sadly hurried on to hnish another
and sixty cents for four days OF toll as hard for
a woman Of her age as ever was reluctant oar
to the straining back OF galley slave.
GETS sEvENTY-FIvn CENTS FOE THIRTI-sEvEN
SHE PAYS.
Mrs Kush has a little general store on a
small scale. which women who work for her
patronize whom they are out OF cash and have to
sss HFsa sss 50 w
and sewing machine. She was asked:
a., How much YSi. Do you make up drawers Tor In
Like this for instance
"Seventy cents Dozen"
Mrs. Mcnamara was making for thirty cents q
dozen. and other women were finishing for
But II the insite bands vas pieced. that
c WAS Axe ss. cent sddsd more d0zsn seventyhve
Maria Mcnamara had to make those with
pieced bands for the same price as the others.
Between the prices asked for other sorts of
goods and the prices paid to the women who
actually did tho work. the disproportion was
~ work for Banner Bros. and for Korn and
Mr.. Godhelp. down town, and sometimes for
Others" Mrs Kush said.
JACKETS AT FIVE CENTS APIECE.
Minnie Mercer lives in a fine fat house at
$40 West, Fifty-flrst street. She does not live
In fiat, however, but In basement room at
the back, q little hole seven by twelve feet
small, to which little light struggles down
through a window from the areaway at tho
back OF the flats. What with a stove. and
table, and one or two other bits Of furniture
there is Just room left for one Of the children
the sewing ~ machine and Mrs, Mercer. The
machine stands In the only light spot In the
room, right under tho window. and Mrs Mer;;
cers head bending over 1t also gets a bit OF
light. The rest Of the room is so dark that
even the bright golden hair OF the child at the
stove might as we'll have been black. for all the
beauty OF 1t that could be seen. But the same
friendly dark hid the little ones wan. starved
face. too. and no doubt many other hings that
were unpleasant In the room. though not the
haggard, emaciated countenance OF Mrs. Mer-
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